Ultralow-Frequency Collective Compression Mode and Strong Interlayer Coupling in Multilayer Black Phosphorus

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Dong, Shan ^a   Zhang, Anmin ^a   Liu, Kai ^a   Ji, Jianting ^a   Ye, Y G ^b   Luo, X G ^b,f   Chen, X H ^b,e,f   Ma, Xiaoli ^a   Jie, Yinghao ^a   Chen, Changfeng ^c   Wang, Xiaoqun ^d,f   Zhang, Qingming ^a,f  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f School of Electronic Science and Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS;

FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; INTERLAYER COUPLING; LOW-FREQUENCY RAMAN; PHONON FREQUENCIES; RAMAN MEASUREMENTS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTER; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); ULTRA LOW FREQUENCIES;

PHOSPHORUS;

EID: 84959422204     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.087401     Document Type: Article

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